Improvement in bale-ties



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD FLINN AND ROBERT Gr. WIER, OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.

IMPRoVEMENT |N BALE-TlEs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.158,836, dated January19, 1875 application tiled December 29,1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD FLINN and ROBERT GALE WIER, of Mobile, inthe county of Mobile and State of Alabama, have invented an ImprovedWire-Link for Bale-Ties, of which the following is a specification:

The object of our invention is to afford a cheap and reliable wire-linkfor connecting the two ends of a baleband.

Our said invention consists of stift' wire bent into a parallelogram,having the two ends of the wire of which it is formed securedpermanently together at one of the angles by coiling the one end of thewire tightly or closely around the projecting end of the other,substantially as will hereinafter be described, with reference to theaccompanying drawing, in Which- Figure l is a plan view of the linkcompleted for application. Fig.2 is a like view of the opposite side ofFig. 1.

A single piece of stiff wire, A, is iirst bent into an oblongparallelogrammic form, with the two ends of the wire crossing each otherat one corner of the parallelogram, and then the wire which constitutesthat narrower end a of the parallelogram is wound closely about twoturns around the projecting end of that part of the wire whichconstitutes that longer side a of the said parallelogram, and iinallycut off, substantially as represented in the drawing.

Wire No. 8% is about the proper size for cotton-ba1e bands. The objectin making the link oblong and winding the end ofthe wire whichconstitutes that narrower end of the said link around that part of thewire which constitutes the one longer side, is to prevent the narrowerends of the link from being used for looping the respective ends of thebale-band (not shown) around them, the said bale-bands being, of course,made of a Width corresponding with the longer space of the link. Itwill, therefore,

be seen that the link cannot be misapplied to. the band or the band tothe link, and that,

when properly applied by looping the ends of the said band,respectively, around the longer sides of the link, the connected ends ofthe wire of the said link cannot be separated by the strain on the bandproduced by the expansion of the bale on its release from the press, therespective ends ofthe band being, of course, passed under and alongbetween the band and the bale in the usual manner.

It will also be seen that this link is complete in itself for immediateuse, can be applied with facility and expedition, and does not requireany bending or alteration Whatever in applying it, and, lnoreover, isinexpensive of structure and reliable for the purpose.

We claim as our invention- The bale-tie link described, the saineconsisting of a single piece of stiff wire, A, bent into the form of aparallelogram, and the two ends of the wire secured together at oneco1'- ner by coling the projecting end of the wire at the shorter side aof the link around the projecting end ofthe wire at the longer side a ofthe same, for the purposes specied.

EDWARD FLINN. ROBERT G. WIER. Witnesses:

S. T. SossAMAN, E. B. OOONNER.

